"Astronomy History and Miscellaneous Questions",37
"Where is the Lowell Observatory located?","Flagstaff, AZ","Tucson, AZ","Palomar Mountain","Lowell, MA","Flagstaff, AZ",""
"Who discovered the planet Uranus?","Percival Lowell","William Herschel","Clyde Tombaugh","Galileo Galilei","William Herschel","uranus.bmp"
"Which day of the week is named after a star?","Monday","Thursday","Sunday","Saturday","Sunday",""
"In 340 B.C. an Ionain Greeek scholar was confident that the shape of the Earth was a sphere. Who was he?","Hipparchus","Aristotle","Copernicus","Newton","Aristotle",""
"Who discovered the planet Pluto?","Percival Lowell","David Levy","Clyde Tombaugh","William Herschel","Clyde Tombaugh","pluto.bmp"
"Who first seriously promoted the heliocentric view of the solar system?","Galileo Galilei","Nicholas Copernicus","Johannes Kepler","Pythagoras","Nicholas Copernicus",""
"Galileo's best telescope had a magnification of ..","5X","30X","100X","300X","30X",""
"Which day of the week is notably named after a planet?","Monday","Wednesday","Thursday","Saturday","Saturday",""
"Which Sicilian discovered the first asteroid, Ceres?","Christiaan Huygens","Guiseppe Piazzi","Asaph Hall","Robert Wilson","Guiseppe Piazzi",""
"What organization has the most specific interest in variable stars?","ALPO","AAVSO","IAU","AL","AAVSO",""
"Who first characterized orbital motion in terms of shape, velocity and distance?","Copernicus","Isaac Newton","Johannes Kepler","Tycho Brahe","Johannes Kepler",""
"In 1782, an 18 year old amateur astronomer discovered the eclipsing binary nature of Algol. Who was he?","Edward Pigott","Geminiano Montanari","John Goodricke","John Plaskette","John Goodricke",""
"Which of the following films has the smallest grain size and high red sensitivity?","Kodak Tri-X Pan","Kodak T-max","Kodak Technical Pan","Kodak Kodachrome 64","Kodak Technical Pan",""
"What is the objective diameter of the Lowell Observatory's original Clark refractor?","13 inches","24 inches","200 inches","45 inches","24 inches",""
"How are comets designated?","the last name of the discoverer(s)","the year of discovery","a sequential number","any name the discoverer chooses","the last name of the discoverer(s)",""
"Who first identified the spectral 'red shift' in galaxies due to their high relative velocity away from us?","Edwin Hubble","Vesto Slipher","Robert Lundin","Clyde Tombaugh","Vesto Slipher",""
"Who was the first astronomer to observe Neptune?","William Herschel","Christiaan Huygens","Robert Lundin","Johanne Galle","Johanne Galle","neptune.rle"
"Who generated the first accurate star catalog containing about 850 entries?","Eudoxus","Hipparchus","Apollonius","Archemedes","Hipparchus",""
"(As of 1994) Which last name is associated with the more comets than any other discovered in the the 20th century?","Levy","Honda","Shoemaker","Yanaka","Shoemaker",""
"When did the American space mission, Apollo 11, make the first landing on the moon?","1967","1968","1969","1970","1969","moon.bmp"
"Which two mathematicians calculated the existence and location of Neptune before it was observed?","Challis and Dawson","Adams and LeVerrier","Pickering and Gailliot","Tombaugh and Lowell","Adams and LeVerrier","neptune.rle"
"Who first determined our sun's location in the Milky Way Galaxy?","Edwin Hubble","Harlow Shapley","Robert Lundin","Asaph Hall","Harlow Shapley",""
"Which famous 19th century American Optician was considered to design the best telescopes of the era?","Walter Adams","Alvin Clark","William Herschel","Isaac Newton","Alvin Clark",""
" Who was the first astronomer to observe 'something interesting' around Saturn but did not recognize it as a ringed structure?","Percival Lowell","Galileo Galilei","William Herschel","Hipparchus","Galileo Galilei","saturn.rle"
"Which astronomer first identified rings around Saturn?","Galilei Galilei","Christiaan Huygens","Tycho Brahe","Giovanni Cassini","Christiaan Huygens","saturn.bmp"
"What organization controls the naming of celestial objects?","The Astronomical League","The International Astronomical Union","Assoc. of Lunar and Planetary Observers","International Stellar Cartography Center","The International Astronomical Union",""
"Who first quantified the expansion of the universe as a function of distance from our galaxy?","Vesto Slipher","Carl Lampland","Edwin Hubble","Robert Lundin","Edwin Hubble",""
"A hypothetical unknown, unobserved planet believed by some to be rotating inside the orbit of Mercury was given which name?","Baby Sol","Vulcan","Endor","Melcor","Vulcan",""
"Which ancient civilization first recognized and used the concept of the celestial sphere?","Egyptians","Greeks","Chinese","Babylonian","Greeks",""
"Who was the first man to calculate fairly accurately the diameter of the Earth?","Aristarchus","Ptolemy","Galilei Galilei","Erastosthenes","Erastosthenes","earth.bmp"
"When was NASA's last manned mission to the moon (Apollo 17) ?","1970","1971","1972","1973","1972","moon.bmp"
"The classification scheme for galaxies based on appearance was devised by whom?","Clyde Tombaugh","Edwin Hubble","Vesto Slipher","Isaac Newton","Edwin Hubble",""
"Who first discovered the moons of Jupiter?","Aristarchus","Galileo Galilei","William Herschel","Issac Newton","Galileo Galilei","jupiter.rle"
"How are asteroids named just after their discovery?","the discoverer immediately names it ","year of discovery and letter coded month","Astronomical League assigns a number","female names only","year of discovery and letter coded month","gaspra3d.bmp"
"Who first cataloged stars in terms of light intesity by 'magnitude'?","Hipparchus","Alexander Bell","Michaelangelo","Erastosthenes","Hipparchus",""
